Edward Hirsch president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foun-dation has contributed mightily to our appreciation of poetry How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry 1999 discourses on all the aspects of poetry drawing widely on what the poets themselves have had to say about it Po

A review of N.T. Wright's Surprised by Hope.

The dramatic question in the headline above was asked by mdash among many others mdash the Rev John L Girardeau a Presbyterian theologian at a ceremony honoring the Confederate dead from Gettysburg being re-interred in Charleston rsquo s Magnolia Cemetery in 1871 The question was meant rhetori

Garry Wills's 'Head and Heart," reviewed

There are millions of immigrant stories in the naked city Intern is one of them mdash the story of the New York cardiologist and author Sandeep Jauhar Born in India in 1968 he came to the United States nine years later with his parents and siblings His father was a plant geneticist who did not g

Attention all Democratic candidates campaign managers media consultants and constituency organizers If there is not a dog-eared frequently underlined copy of Amy Sullivan rsquo s The Party Faithful on your bookshelf soon please quit Sullivan who is the nation editor at Time magazine writes